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... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... French actor Gerard FRU is famous for many things has found his Bondi blonde lifestyle ... but his greatest accomplishment need very well be the public the error that he has picked up ... in his home country of France for wait for it ... tax policy ... Wall Street Journal Europe editorial page editor Brian Carney joins me now ... from London to explain ... Brian ... what motivated Mr. Zipcar due to take such issue with tax rates in this country ... well ... um as you may know not the president of France last year tied to put up the top tax rate to seventy five percent ... now a constitutional court just at the end of the year struck down the provision of the president says is going to find a way to ... reintroduce it the ... constitutional Court has a narrow technical objections to the rate but not the fact that a seventy five percent anyway ... sure I'd ever do responded with an open letter to ... calm the French Prime Minister GYN and a role ... in a ... big trend Sunday newspapers saying that ... France's punishing success of France doesn't you now appreciate its most successful citizens and so ... is handing in the Sosa Security card is sending in espouse Florida and he's ... off to Belgium and of itself was a big uproar but it got even weirder in recent days when ... he went off to Russia and accepted the Russian passport ... in a big hug to Vladimir Kookmin was all for the ... posts of ... Ministry of called Cerup are ... but tiny friend diet tiny Russian province kind of off in the middle of nowhere ... which is led people to what's going on here soon moving to Belgium is moving to rush NYSE and the son of Russian peasant garb and ... this is all to some crazy publicity stunt that Scott Knott of hand ... he now says by the way the ... voting hello iSpy friend sian so on and so forth so ... these are trying to walk it back although also yesterday he missed a court appearance for a drunk driving charge he crashed his scooter ... in Paris a while back and he's ... under the head three times the legal limit of alcohol even show up in court yesterday for the court appearance I ... he's not a lot this is making a movie and cry Tweet or the other ... in French say CEO sleep at French rock stars leave the country ... because again if these tax rates ... but if there's something different happening now ... is the French public starting to understand ... that they are actually losing ... key talent but also as Mr. Deptford who pointed out in his letter ... job creators ... well ... I think that remains to be saying no to the Pardew has a very complicated ... relationship and reputation in France that the put it mildly in out he said in his letter is that it ... made fun of themselves for being fat and having high cholesterol and crashing has to Durham ... you know ... he's said a drunken episode see acted out on the plane a while back to that and yet ... the French love them for a lot of the movies he's made some of which are so different historical ones in some of which is just ... absurd as French comedy isn't so ... I think people are little bit you know like me ... the China figure out what to make of this thing and I was to the grand protests wasn't just a dose of ... the Gerard being sure are dead you know what ... what are the consequences of this and you know should we be angry at him or anger of the president for driving people like him away and ... you know Francisco since are never simple Humphrey and Brian very briefly though while France half to figure out how to plug its deficits in eventually they tried raising taxes it hasn't worked it's the same story that were seen across Europe ... but does is at least started debate that the French have to have ... well certainly it does France's run a deficit for at least thirty years without interruption images of remarkable streak ... of ... of the market so far been patient of France's they have been the last and ... whether they wake up before their woken up like ... Greece has been are or Ireland or to some extent staying in the last year ... I think ... that remains to be seen ... well um ... maybe when that crisis happens Mr. Tepper you'll be safely nestled in as much Russian doctor ... I watch the Journal Europe editorial page editor Brian Carney ... thank you very much for being ... with us ...